Yes, for Simeone, the document was indeed much "friendly", and the French even made a generous promise to provide Britain with a huge amount of money after the war was over to restore the British economy.

Of course, Simeone is not a fool. Of course he could see that this was a glass of poisonous wine, or, in the French used to say, it was a sugar-coated shell. The funds were not free of charge, no cost or demand. In the words of a great man, it was: "The Taigong fished and the willing man took the bait. The food he gave was pity, and his stomach would hurt when he ate it!"

The use of this fund must be supervised by the French, of course this is very reasonable; the UK must carry out reforms in China that meet the requirements of the French. Even if it accepts friendly assistance from the French and accepts this "food of pity". The British government even loses the power to formulate its own fiscal budget, because the budget method must meet the requirements of the French, so that they can get the little "food of pity" from the French.

"Financial is the mother of all politics." This is the basic truth that every senior British bureaucrat knows. In fact, the struggle between all the state machinery of the United Kingdom, whether it is the parliament and the king, the Whigs and the Tories, or the various departments of the government... All these struggles revolve around the fiscal budget.

Now, once the French have received "aid" from the supreme struggle, a supreme ruling will suddenly appear in this supreme struggle. Although according to the provisions, this ruling is not a plenipotent person like "our Father in Heaven", he only has the veto power.

But having the veto power is already decisive. Imagine that if you meet a referee when playing football, his principle is: I say it is not a foul, it is not a foul, even if he kicks directly at your head who is lying on the ground; I say that the goal is invalid, the goal is invalid, no matter what method you kick in, even if you are dragging the ball from the goal line of the team and bringing it into other people's goal; even if you are Spanish or Italian, I say that you will be eliminated, and you will be eliminated, even if your opponent is just a team that is not up to standard.

Once the French have such power, the entire British government will survive by relying on financial support, from the army to the police, from the courts to the prison, if they want to live a good life, the most important thing will change to please France. Because only by pleaseing the French can they get the budget they need.

So as long as the aid is accepted, the entire British government will become a subordinate department of the French government. Eating food with pity is not just a stomachache. However, can the United Kingdom today really refuse this aid?

The consequences of refusing this aid are very clear. Many riots have connections with the French - the French themselves do not hide it. This is a lot of money. In today's British people, as long as they can take out such a sum of money, they can raise the French checkbook and shake it like a big banner. Those soldiers who cannot eat enough, the hungry policemen, and the spies who cannot feed their wives and children will abandon the United Kingdom without hesitation and drag the British out of the museum to capture them in Toulon.

The guillotine, then erected it on the Tower of London, and then, starting with the king, all those with noble titles—even just knights— were lined up in a long line, one by one, and one by one. When each noble head fell, the mobs on the watch would cheer together. People inserted the king and prince's heads on the spears and marched on the streets of London, and the crowd followed behind the terrible spears, cheering like a carnival.

There was a head hanging on each street lamp in London, and there was a piece of paper with their crimes hanging below, which read: "Vampire", "Enemy of the People", "Nobles"... The children ran past below, and happily sang a song from France in English while running: "Will be fine, will be fine... The nobles were all hung on the street lamp poles..."

"This is really terrible!" Even if I just imagined this situation, Simeone couldn't help but tremble, sweating profusely, and even tears flowed down.

"We must never let the United Kingdom fall into such a situation, so even poisonous wine can only drink it. If you don't drink it, you will die. If you drink it, I don't know who it is, but at least I will not flutter in the wind on the street lamp poles."

But Simeone still wants to work hard to get as much as possible for the United Kingdom.

So when he met Talleyran again, he told him that in principle, he agreed with the basic concepts in the memorandum, and he believed that under the guidance of such concepts, Britain and France would be able to overcome all misunderstandings and misfortunes and become brotherly countries that go hand in hand.

Of course, there are still some small problems here, such as the various restrictions on the British government's budget that are accompanied by French aid.

"Of course, since the misunderstanding has been eliminated and the war has ended, it is certainly necessary to compress the size of the army too large, but it is not too much to reduce the size of all the British army to less than 30,000 people, and limit the size of the navy to only having armored cruisers... Mr. Minister, you know, the military has a great say in the government, and cutting off their budgets so much will bring us a lot of resistance."

"Ah, my friend, I thought that only an invincible army could put pressure on the government. In addition, your thinking was imprisoned by the old ideas of the past. We do not have to harm the interests of the leaders of the military. Indeed, the size of the army is overwhelmingly 30,000, but we do not stipulate how many soldiers and officers there are in these 30,000 people. Even if these 30,000 people are generals, even if the number of generals is more than the number of cannons, that is not a problem."

"The people will not accept such a ridiculous thing." Simeone said.

"Ah, if the people don't accept it, it must be that your explanation work is not in place. So, in many things, you British people should learn more." Talleyran replied with a smile on his face, "For example, you can tell them that raising too many troops in daily life will consume a lot of wealth, which will affect everyone's living standards. If you only keep the skeleton of the army, that is, organization and officers, you can save a lot of money, and there are organization and officers. Once it is time to expand the army, you can quickly expand the army. Isn't this explanation? The tax collected from them is less, but the army can still be used. What else do they have to be dissatisfied with?

In addition, in this way, the number of troops can be reduced, but all the organization is still there, and the number of officers can still be retained. Although the military budget has been reduced a lot, because there are no big-headed soldiers, there are more people who can be allocated to each officer. Isn’t this a good thing for the military? As long as you can explain the interests and reasons to them, how could they oppose such things that are beneficial to the country?

As for the navy... First of all, the navy is very expensive. If your country must spend a lot of money to build battleships, who is its imaginary enemy? As for the navy's opposition, if the army can stand on the side of the government, what is the point of their opposition difficult to deal with? Besides, if there are such people who are ignorant of the current affairs in the navy, wouldn't it be enough to throw these guys into prison first on the charge of unfavorable combat? I think his successor will definitely be much smarter. Besides, the navy is the same as the army, and its scale can be compressed, but the organization is the same. Isn't that the same?"

When he said this, Talleyran did not know that in the original history, many years later, the British Royal Navy, which once ruled the ocean, once fell to only six destroyers. But even in this case, our British Navy still retained the organization of many fleets that had long disappeared.

For example, after the "Purple Quartz" incident, the "Yangzijiang Fleet" that was driven out of the Yangtze River was maintained until the 21st century in the establishment of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, and there were many officers, such as fleet commanders, etc. This is normal. After all, the British Empire has its own national conditions. Our British Army has more generals than tanks. Our British Navy must not be less generals than the army's red deer, but the British Navy has too few ships, so we can't let the general take the position of a commander of the engine. Therefore, the dead soul organization like the "Yangzijiang Fleet" can come in handy. Therefore, some fleet commanders of the British Navy have fewer warships and soldiers than the Mongolian Navy in the King's Seven Warriors Sea.

However, Simeone still had some doubts, so he said: "But you also know that there are some unstable factors in our country. If the army is so small and they rebel, what should we do?"

"We have calculated that your army, if the officers under the current organization, should have a force of more than 10,000 people to fight. Considering that your railway has been well built over the years and the army's rapid movement ability is quite strong, we think that a rapid response force of 10,000 people is enough to deal with such a situation." Talleyrand replied.

"But..." But Simeone still shut up. In theory, there are still more than 10,000 troops left to fight. In theory, these troops are indeed enough. But, but this is all theoretically, in fact, it is another matter.

For example, the army needs to recover and clear out so many people, which is a very important task. Shouldn’t such an important task be set up to establish a special agency to be responsible for? For example, a military streamlining work committee is set up to be responsible for this work.

Of course, members of the "International Simplification Committee" must be officials, some of whom are officers, and some of them are civilian officials of the government. Their expenses naturally have to be paid out of military expenses. Of course, theoretically, this is a temporary agency and will be cancelled after the work is completed. However, this is only theoretically. When will the "Interim Agency" established by my United Kingdom really pass temporary? Considering the number of people occupied by these temporary agencies and the number of places left for the combat troops, it is really God knows.

But it is too embarrassing to say such things, so Simeone really can't say it. After all, although he is a professional diplomat, an important feature of diplomats is that the lower limit is low enough and he doesn't want to be a little bit unfair. But in this regard, Simeone and a fat diplomat in the later Lighthouse Kingdom publicly regarded lying, deceiving, and stealing as the glory of continuous progress. (A glory of continuous progress: What does it have to do with me? Well, work hard together and turn Huawei!)

So the military issue was successfully solved. Then there were some other details. Since we had decided to sell the country and seek honor, the most important thing was of course to sell it at a good price. Before it came out, the UK had already determined the basic bottom line for this negotiation, that is, to protect the kingdom and not protect the Great Britain.

In theory, Britain and the Kingdom are different. Britain can be the United Kingdom, but it can also be the United Republic, and even if the revolution progresses well, it can also be the Soviet Union.

But neither the United Republic nor the Soviet Union were at the forefront of the nobles, so now, the interests of Great Britain were contrary to the interests of the kingdom. The kingdom must immediately and firmly turn to France in order to continue to rule Great Britain.

Since we adhered to this attitude, there were no real difficult-to-solve problems between the two sides. So in a friendly atmosphere, both sides fully communicated on some details on the new memorandum proposed by French Foreign Minister Talleyran, and formed a broad consensus. Finally, the two sides signed the memorandum to show "pleasant agreement."

Then Simeone rushed back to London with a new memorandum and handed the memorandum to the Prince and the Earl of Liverpool for review.

It was already late at night when Simeone arrived in London, but the prince ordered him to bring the memorandum to Buckingham Palace immediately to report to them.

As soon as he entered Buckingham Palace, a waiter came to greet him. The waiter took him into the living room, and Simeone saw that the prince and the Prime Minister Liverpool were waiting there.

"How is it? What did you bring back?" asked the prince, his tone and expression, as if a prisoner was asking about the court's judgment on him. It was both fear and expectation.

"Peace," replied Simeone, "His Royal Highness, Prince, I bring back the peace of our time."
Chapter completed!